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eBayWatch/2 Ver 1.09f

Hello All,

eBayWatch/2 is an auction management tool for OS/2 users. It works solely with the eBay auction site. It is meant to aid the user in searching for, monitoring and bidding on auction items. eBayWatch/2 is copyright freeware.

Required -
1) partition with long filename support (hpfs/jfs)
2) rexxutil.dll and rxsock.dll in libpath
3) must start from its work directory, or a program object which sets the work directory

I have uploaded ver 1.09f to - http://www.eclipse.net/~knkrchnr

From the readme -

- New: Added "Archive" option for auction data (I probably should have mentioned that the option will only start after the program has been restarted with the new settings. You might want to backup your ebay.dat and data\* directories first)
- eBay changes broke bidding ability
- eBay changes broke search results page
- New: Added "Save" button to AutoBid window. Writes to "AutoBid.Txt"
- Change: Bid group headers remain until you have won desired quantity
- Change: Bid group items now remain until the last auction has closed
- Fix: Bid group updates not working where UserID is Mixed Case
- Fix: Auto delete code not deleting expired auctions
- Change: Load/sort of "Closed items" page delayed and priority changed
- Change: Auto Refresh thread changed to "Idle" class
- Fix: eBay changed bid confirmation on Dutch Auctions
- Change: Allow multi-select for item refresh
- Fix: Context menu items not set properly when multi-select used
- Fix: missed change in search page that broke "Show as Local" in results
(well, this one is now useless since eBay has changed to "Time Left")

As always, if you find anything strange or broken, please let me know. In this one I'm also interested in help screens which are missing or wrong since program operation has been changing.

Thanks,
Ken

Warpstock 2002 Must See presentations

At Warpstock 2002 in Austin Texas you can see with your own eyes what many have only heard about. Sorry for the length of this post, but the Warpstock weekend will be packed with exciting things to see and hear about OS/2 and eComStation. Some of the great things expected at our show this year include:

- Bob St. John of Serenity Systems will be telling us what to expect in eComStation 1.1. In addition they will be giving away copies of the 1.1 beta.

- Greg Shah of Golden Code Development will be presenting the recently announced OS/2 port of the Java 2 Standard Edition ("J2SE") platform, release 1.4, as well as the ongoing development and support for the the Mozilla Web Browser under OS/2.

- Greg Shah of Golden Code will be demonstrating a new product called SESAME. This product is the most complete security system ever created for OS/2. It turns OS/2 into a true multi-user system from both a local and remote access perspective.

- Brian Smith of F/X Communications, will present the new features of the InJoy Firewall and Dialer with an emphasis on crossplatform operability. Demonstrating platform independent management and serving using clients and servers of varying systems, including OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and MacOS. As well demonstrating some of the new tunnelling and firewalling functionality, using the new GUI.

- Kendall Bennett of SciTech Software will be showing off Snap Graphics for OS/2 2.0.

- Connectix will be presenting VirtualPC 5.0 and will have a special show price as well.

- Richard R. Spurlock & William F. Kershner of Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc. will discuss their "Titan Single Logon" package.

- Jan Van Wijk will be showing off his latest version of Display File Systems (DFSee), a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser. DFSee supports partition-tables (FDISK, LVM), (V)FAT, FAT-32, HPFS-structures, some NTFS and JFS stuff and it might support different file-systems like EXT2 in the future. This presentation will be an introduction to DFSee : a demonstration of the product's main features, some usage examples and finally a Q&A session.

- Netlabs will be showing Lookout/2, HW Overlay and much more.

So be sure to come to Warpstock 2002 for the chance to be one of the first to learn the latest information about OS/2 and eComstation. This year, Warpstock is taking place in the home of OS/2 development. Warpstock will take place the weekend of October 5-6, 2002 in Austin, Texas at the Renaissance Austin Hotel. You can find the complete presentation schedule as well as event registration and hotel reservation information at our web site: http://www.warpstock.org

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy.

More information is available at the Warpstock web site : http://www.warpstock.org

Mozilla 1.2a

What's New in Mozilla 1.2a

* Type Ahead Find is a new feature that allows quick navigation when you type a succession of characters in the browser, matching the text in one or more links on the page. To give it a spin just go to a web page, start typing and hit enter to load the selected link. You can also use it to search for any text on the page by typing / before your search text. Read the full Type Ahead Find documentation to learn about all of its features, prefs and future plans. The feature is not yet working on Mac but we expect to have that fixed by 1.2beta.
* Selection of text in message headers has been partially implemented.
* Drag and drop from the message search results window is new.
* One of the most frequently reported bugs, "long strings in mail or news header cause scroll bars and attachment window to disappear, making message unreadable" has been fixed. (Bug 91662)
* Preliminary XML prettyprinting, similar to IEs default-view for XML is now available. In this release the feature does not work in installer-builds you need to get a .zip distribution. However since the feature for now affects the DOM for unstyled XML-pages it is disabled by default. To enable it, add user_pref("layout.xml.prettyprint", true); to your user.js. (Bug 64945)
* On Windows you can now add multiple attachments to a mail message via the Attach File dialog. (Bug 121122)
* Major improvements to Mac OS X IMAP mail header download performance. Preliminary tests show about 2000% improvement.
* Text zoom now applies to framed pages.
* Keyboard access is greatly improved including additional accesskeys for menus, other ui elements and page elements.

And (not mentioned on the official site) OS/2 has now an own installer.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2a/

BTW. At a first glance it seems more stable than Mozilla 1.1 final .

New WarpVision GUI

13.09.2002
! Great day :))
+ Playlist enhancements: Play selected, Save selected to file, Clear playlist, Remove selected
+ while plaing by list doubleclick on BEGIN button play previous track
* DVD play time

12.09.2002
* cache turned off (except DVD) due some problems
* GUI engine: vertical slider realized

11.09.2002
* fixed PM dispatcher while waiting somthing
* click on empty playlist caused 3170.fixed

10.09.2002
* settings open freezing bug fixed
* 2 and more Movie window open fixed
* volume decreased on each play attempt. fixed

08.09.2002
* while plaing by list, in FS and HWVIDEO screen doesnot repaint
* changed key color from pink to dark gray
* reduced number of repaints

07.09.2002
+ added MP3 audio, WAV support
+ d'n'd to playlist now with directories
* fixed 3170 while attempting to play from pleylist
* removed some small memory leaks

Program URL:
http://os2.kiev.ua

Direct download:
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20020913.zip

Two brand new skins:
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvguiskins/wvgui_donttakedrugs_skin.zip
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvguiskins/wvgui_orangesteel_skin.zip

Ghostscript 7.30 developer release

A new developer release of the well known postscript and pdf interpreter has been released for OS/2 too.

The major new code here is the DeviceN implementation, recently merged in to the main development tree. People interested in DeviceN should take a look and help iron out the remaining issues.

Please keep in mind: Ghostscript is currently the only way to view and produce PDF -files on OS/2. So having a bug-fixed OS/2 version should be of vital interest to any OS/2 user.

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/test/

www.ecomstation.cz

There is new website for eComStation operating system for Czech users... Includes some articles, screenshots, faq etc...

http://www.ecomstation.cz

Warp-Compatible Printer Deal

There aren't too many left, and it's a heck of a good deal.

If you're looking for a 12 page per minute Warp-compatible laser printer, the Brother HL-1250 is available from Computers4Sure. (The HL-1250 is explicitly supported by recent versions of the OS/2 Warp LaserJet driver, which you can find on IBM's OS/2 Device Driver Pak On-Line web site.) Includes both USB and parallel port connections.

The final cost (after coupon) is $184, plus $21.10 shipping.

The web site for this laser printer is:

http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=1219193

The printer is listed at $199. Add a piece of CD-R media or some other low cost item to hit $200. Then use coupon code LSC851 at checkout to knock $15 off the total price.

I have no affiliation with Computers4Sure or Brother.

TVShow 0.42 released

Now IRQ driven and with remote control support. TVShow is a program for viewing tv on bt8x8 based cards.

http://os2.kiev.ua

Driver for Fritz! ISDN PCCard

This FRITZOS2.EXE package provides you with most current support for the Fritz! based PCCards on the OS/2 Operating System.

ISDN drivers are designed to work on Notebook Models supported by OS/2.

Tests are performed for following devices:

o Thinkpad 760, 760XD, 770, 770X
o Thinkpad 600E, 600X
o Thinkpad T20, T21, T23

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/fritzos2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=fritzos2.zip

Poll update @ OS2 World

This month we are wondering if you are using any of SciTech Software, Inc's products such as SciTech Display Doctor or SNAP. To participate in this poll enter the poll area at OS2 World by using following url:

http://www.os2world.com/polls/

From: Kim Haverblad kim@os2world.com

4OS2, Take Command/OS2, and Take Command/16 Downloadable for free

Except from: http://www.jpsoft.com/jpview.cgi?changes!.txt

* 4OS2, Take Command/OS2, and Take Command/16 will no longer be sold. However, they will be available for download as free but unsupported products.

Download at:
http://www.jpsoft.com/download.htm

DFSee version 5.01 released

DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. More details at:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm

Direct download links:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee501.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/dfsee501.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee501.zip

Note:
This release fixes one nasty bug in restoring compressed images (.IMZ) made with version 4.xx using version 5.00.

Most important changes:

- PART LVM 'bootable' indicator for partitions that are no volumes
- PART Add warning on multiple extended containers being present
- PART Fix CHS warnings for logical partition outside container
- ALLOC Fixed FAT alloc display trap on an empty partition
- CREATE Fixed CHS for sectors >= 64 on CREATE, using modulo 64
- DISK Add warning on non-standard geometry sectors/track >= 64
- DISK Force extended Int13 use on GEO with cyl >= 1024 with -I-
- DISK Display 'deleted' partition entries too (type == 0)
- DISK Updated internal ext-int13 data to EDD 3.0 specifications
- Display non-windowed, no status line after last cmd and -Q present
- MAP Fixed map -g to show the geometry again as documented
- SETBOOT Automatic '-query' after SETBOOT change, fix obsolete warning
- WRIM Fixed WRIM write buffer-size on compressed data from 4.xx

Check DFS*.TXT files for details

But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!

Regards, Jan van Wijk

xWindows 2.3.3 unstable beta released

wxWindows 2.3.3 UNSTABLE DEVELOPMENT SNAPSHOT. wxWindows is a sophisticated cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where possible) the native controls, has been released as beta OS/2 port

http://os2ports.com/browse/index_html?dir=pub/os2/unix/devtools/wxWindows

for more informations on wxWindows see:

http://www.wxwindows.org/

A popular application developed using wxWindows is http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

New in Mike's notebook - Netbios over TCP/IP and Samba

New in Mikes' Notebook - Netbios over TCP/IP, OS/2, Samba, and linux - a search for common ground.

Configuring OS/2 to use Netbios over TCP/IP to communicate with linux. Configuring linux to use Samba to communicate with OS/2.

Mike's Notebook is located at http://www.catherders.com/mwcexp.shtml

Announcement: RDBMS for OS/2 and eCs Site

I am pleased to announce the "Relational Database Management Systems for OS/2 and eComstation" site.

Covering topics from MySQL/2, Postgres SQL for OS/2, DBExpert, Tools and Online Tutorials and References with more to come.

The site can be found at http://www.os2world.com/rdbms/

Hope everyone finds this useful.

David Del Col

New LXAPI32.SYS/BT32.SYS for OS/2 FP#13 or higher and eCS

I've released a new version of my device drivers LXAPI32.SYS/BT32.SYS.

LXAPI32.SYS is a linux api layer for easy porting linux drivers to OS/2. New with this release: Parameter /NOPCINAMEDEVICE If you get a trap 0e on startup and installed SEC32.SYS then include this parameter. This prevents LXAPI32.SYS from reading PCI.IDS which causes the trap.

BT32.SYS is the linux port of bttv, the driver for BT8x8 based capture cards. Included is a small sample application to watch TV and hear radio.

You can download it from http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/bttv_en.htm

MfG Stefan Milcke

vCOMPAT v0.22b released

Hi!

vCOMPAT v0.22b got released today. It's a special VDD, that will fix some issues in VDMs to further enhance compatibility. It contains plenty of fixes and some of them are user-controlable via Properties.

Fixes this time:
- Find1st-Patch is now only applied on CD-ROM access (bug is in original MSCDEX actually)
- INT25h-Patch is now able to live with the "patched" INT25h done by IBM in their latest kernels (INT25h is supposed to be buggy, this bug was fixed by IBM, we are emulating it again)

The 2nd fix will remove a crash in Win3.11 under eCS v1.02/MCP-2, because IBM fixed a bug that was not intended to get fixed, so actually producing a stack-fault. The new version is able to live with both versions, the "buggy" but correct one and the "accidentally-fixed" one.

Download from: http://en.ecomstation.ru/kiewitzsoft/vdd-vcompat.php

WarpOverlay! v1.0 Released

Hardware-based video overlay support and a break-away from DIVE and EnDIVE's limitations are finally here. Valery Guynullin brings you the long-awaited successor to HW EnDIVE: the public release of WarpOverlay! v1.0, with it's own, independant API! Check out the protege version of WarpVision GUI too - with OSD (on-screen display) provided by WarpOverlay!. This isn't just for users. Developers too, can sink their teeth into it's wholesome, media-rich OS/2 goodness. Check out WarpOverlay! v1.0 and the latest version of WarpVision GUI - today!

http://os2.kiev.ua

CWUSBMSD on hobbes works with Skymaster DCD 1300 Digital Camera

If you have not seen yet, Chris Wohlgemuth has release a beta set of USB-drivers. The included mass storage device-driver works for me with my little digi-cam (Skymaster DCD 1300). I can read out the pictures from the compact-flash memory.

-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cw-usbmsd-v1_1.zip

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